Is Adam Dicker a criminal? You decide.

[S-B]

This story starts with DNF; a barren wasteland that once was a leading forum within the domain industry. While the forum itself played a huge role in propagating the myth that is Adam Dicker, the story really begins with DNF College in the summer of 2011.

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Updates / Reports
These are in no particular order.

• Report by headsupp (Resolved)
  • Relevant Videos
  • Reply to Adam
  • Update: Resolved
  
  
• Report by LannyB (Unresolved)
  • Response
    • Follow-up Questions
  
  
• Report by domainesque (Unresolved)
  • Update: Unresolved
  • Report Details
  • Update: Waiting on Refund
  
  
• Report of Shane Cultra's friends (Unresolved)
  • Update: Unpaid
  
  
• Report by Jeff Markus (Dissatisfied)
  
  
• Report by simmplex (Resolved)
  • Refunded
  
  
• Report by Blenja_Man (Pending)
  • Voucher
  • Update: Work in Progress
  
  
• Report by RandysDomains (Resolved)
  • Resolved
  
  
• Report by swamismith (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by Charlie (Unresolved)
  • Cover-up
  • Update: Unresolved
  
  
• Report by Jaqpot (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by anon22339 (Unresolved)
  • Details
  
  
• Report by Joseph Peterson (Resolved)
  • Update: Unpaid after 8 days
  • Update: Paid
  
  
• Report by Frank Schilling (Resolved)
  • Update: Paid
  
  
• Report by Lonewolf5503 (Paypal Dispute)
  • Update: Website not delivered and no longer accessible
  • Update: Lonewolf5503 wins PayPal dispute
  
  
• Report by GermanRaven (Unresolved)
  • Update: Full story
  
  
• Report by ClaudeDauman (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by bobsranch (Unresolved)
  • Details
  • Update: Legal Letter Received
  
  
• Report by Newby888 (Unresolved)
  
  
• Report by dougasd (Unresolved)

From what I understand, Adam still owes north of $33,000 to previous customers and business partners. As I receive more information, I will update this figure.

 

[carob]

I like wordpress, its easy for me,especially since domainapps is done. What's the relevance? I need a website built and am still up in the air about using nichewebsites.com My wordpress skills are limited lol www.HempDelights.com

Nichewebistes.com uses a WP theme built by someone else:
http://demo.qodeinteractive.com/bridge/

ref: https://nichewebsites.com/wp-content/themes/bridge/style.css

Website prices became relevant here because people have said they did not like what they got, or did not get, when they paid Adam Dicker for a site. As people are saying here, you need to research and get quotes. It is common for people to charge the unwary large amounts to snap together prefab wordpress components.

 

[tld_org]

I don't think I missed that, I don't think anyone has really, and that is precisely my point.

This is the mentality that leads to widescale issues in the first place. If things are put out there publicly as soon as possible then they don't have the chance to build up in the shadows and grow until you have an issue that impacts many people.

 

[discobull]

I don't think I missed that, I don't think anyone has really, and that is precisely my point.

Then I don't know what to say to you. I understand your point and I agree with you but if the things that concern you are exactly what the OP is hoping for then what do you expect to happen as a result of telling him that his objectives are being met? I suspect that he's celebrating that fact.

 

[djum]

In the professional world you should suspend the relationship once you heard allegations until you get the facts. But in this instance that did not look like what has happened, so how many people watched a Domain Sherpa show and as a result had dealings with Niche Websites or Adam that may cause them an issue? Seems like Cyger put his friendship first when he should have put the welfare of his readership/viewership first and he only took action when it was deemed absolutely necessary. Action should have been taken at the first rumblings, he shouldn't have needed sponsors, and sherpas, and people following the show, and others to all come to him before he did something.

May be I'm old-fashioned, but if my friend have problems I will do my best to help him out, not by "suspending relationship", but by actually doing something. And I expect the same from them.
Then it's real friendship, not just professional relationship.

 

[Ted.T]

Let's say it, when you order a WP site, you pay for the work of setting all up, not for WP and additional components. It's a common thing between human beings, "I could do better" while failing at even starting smth.

However, there is another side, when you take the money for the job, you have to make it in the best possible way. When you take a lot of money, you must provide the best service.

There are still companies that offer simple WP sites for ridiculous prices, and should be punished...

 

[GoWebnames.com]

Not to be a party pooper but does anyone else realise this forum is not closed, all comments can be seen in search pages, and the man being spoken about has A FAMILY..
Shouldn't this post be made a bit more private? Or does no one here seem to care about the feelings of kids? In a world of online bullying can you imagine how it might be for them?? Am I the only one going to mention that? From what I see this post coincides too closely with the domain conference in Florida ending and "so called" awards being handed out.
The domaining industry as a whole has a bad reputation yet when that is mentioned people go all hush hush about it with nothing further being mentioned.
Seriously ....Unless you have a valid complaint yourself It might be wise to step away from this thread is this namecallers or namepros? Think of the children please.

I had rather first care about feeding hungry stomachs than about a child feeling bad about his parents' infamy.

Some people have stated here that $1500 for them is a matter of sustenance, which was extracted from them on some false promises and nothing returned. Neither the service, nor the money.

I guess, it's only Karma coming around to hunt the hunter.

 

[gustave]

I wouldn't be surprised if we spend more time/money scaling and enhancing XenForo than they spend developing it. Websites like NamePros can't run any old software and hardware they please; they receive too much traffic and can easily be overwhelmed by the slightest performance issue. We've had to rewrite significant portions of XenForo, and we have a large library of add-ons developed entirely in-house. There are rarely less than 10 servers running the website, and quite often more. We typically log and analyze about 3 GiB of diagnostic data per day to ensure everything is running smoothly.

Exactly. I wouldn't doubt what you wrote. Namepros performance is pretty impressive for a forum with that amount of traffic, looks like you guys did a pretty good job. Good luck to anyone scaling with wordpress.

 

[DomainGist]

I wouldn't be surprised if we spend more time/money scaling and enhancing XenForo than they spend developing it. Websites like NamePros can't run any old software and hardware they please; they receive too much traffic and can easily be overwhelmed by the slightest performance issue. We've had to rewrite significant portions of XenForo, and we have a large library of add-ons developed entirely in-house. There are rarely less than 10 servers running the website, and quite often more. We typically log and analyze about 3 GiB of diagnostic data per day to ensure everything is running smoothly using our proprietary monitoring system, and have several third-party monitoring systems that log and audit much more.

I'm sure that's all true, but people do also underestimate how much goes into writing the software/framework in the first place. I can't speak for Xenforo but I use Invision (a competitor) and it took them 3 years to complete IP board 4.0 from conception to general release, it was a complete ground-up rewrite, was frustrating as a user awaiting a stable alpha release, it went through several beta versions and pre-releases. Once written they don't have to do much more than sit back and count their sub money, releasing the odd security patch for minor version upgrades, but sounded like a huge undertaking to get to that stage.

 

[discobull]

Good luck to anyone scaling with wordpress.

This might change your opinion:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/40-most-notable-big-name-brands-that-are-using-wordpress/

 

[namezest]

Then I don't know what to say to you. I understand your point and I agree with you but if the things that concern you are exactly what the OP is hoping for then what do you expect to happen as a result of telling him that his objectives are being met? I suspect that he's celebrating that fact.

Thanks for agreeing, I agree with you too... It is not just one person that is being exposed here I think this will actually damage the original poster more than they realise.

 

[GoWebnames.com]

Exactly. I wouldn't doubt what you wrote. Namepros performance is pretty impressive for a forum with that amount of traffic, looks like you guys did a pretty good job. Good luck to anyone scaling with wordpress.

You need to understand that scaling with increasing traffic is a different issue altogether.
NamePros for example hosts all its static content on CloudFlare.com, so all css/javascript files are served from their servers reducing the load on NP servers by a factor of 10x in the least.

Wordpress is very much competent to do the job as discobull shared the list above.

 

[DomainGist]

Exactly. I wouldn't doubt what you wrote. Namepros performance is pretty impressive for a forum with that amount of traffic, looks like you guys did a pretty good job. Good luck to anyone scaling with wordpress.

There are some major brands using wordpress.... Techcrunch and Mashable to name two I believe?

 

[Paul]

You need to understand that scaling with increasing traffic is a different issue altogether.
NamePros for example hosts all its static content on CloudFlare.com, so all css/javascript files are served from their servers reducing the load on NP servers by a factor of 10x in the least.

Wordpress is very much competent to do the job as discobull shared the list above.

Most requests to namepros.com are ajax-based and are not cached by CloudFlare. CloudFlare's caches serve somewhere between 10-20% of requests. However, as much of this content must load along with each page, using CloudFlare increases apparent page load time significantly.

 

[Jaqpot]

FloridaLoan.com is a very nice site, great name and it got dropped. Beautiful site for someone.

I still own it.

 

[Jaqpot]

And you even let the domain expire, FloridaLoan.com was picked up by me about an year back.
Sorry to hear about your loss, $3000 for developing a website is a rip-off. The best of websites can be ordered to be developed for as little as $100-$1000.



Carob, the website currently is not his.
I picked up FloridaLoan.com when it expired and sold to someone else at Flippa about an year back.
The present website is that person's.

It's mine now. I did buy it about a year ago!

 

[gustave]

You need to understand that scaling with increasing traffic is a different issue altogether.
NamePros for example hosts all its static content on CloudFlare.com, so all css/javascript files are served from their servers reducing the load on NP servers by a factor of 10x in the least.

Wordpress is very much competent to do the job as discobull shared the list above.

All the websites listed in http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/40-most-notable-big-name-brands-that-are-using-wordpress/ are big brands but they're mostly all the same type of websites, blogs or articles.

You need to understand that scaling with increasing traffic is a different issue altogether.
NamePros for example hosts all its static content on CloudFlare.com, so all css/javascript files are served from their servers reducing the load on NP servers by a factor of 10x in the least.

Wordpress is very much competent to do the job as discobull shared the list above.

A CDN (cloudflare) is for static files only, images/css/js etc., there is much more to a website. Namepros is mostly in Ajax and there look to be several thousands of ajax requests per hour, that's a lot of load on a server. There is also and most importantly, the code and maintenance part, I wouldn't want to code a big project with wordpress. Did you guys ever write a line of code? It's a complete different world than installing wordpress plugins. It has to be done well and there is a lot to worry about. This is my last post for real, send me a PM or start a new thread if you wanna talk about it.

 

[D. Wells]

It's easy to post anonymously and make accusations. I have no issues with people coming forward and posting their stories under their real names. If you actually want things resolved though, you need to contact me.

The way you are approaching this is disgusting, it makes me sick. You haven't made one meaningful post in this entire thread. You want to be treated as some sort of King and this has nothing to do with lawyers. Anyone with a decent understanding of how the legal system works knows that you suing Shane would be expensive and go nowhere.

Look man, it's starting to look like you scammed people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. You took money and didn't even attempt to delivery. This isn't just 1 or 2 people, I've seen at least 20 thus far. Why is it so hard for you to man up and address these folks concerns? Why does anyone have to contact you?

I personally know people who took your DN College(whatever the hell it's called.) You were telling them their domains were worth tens of thousands of dollars and they should pay you anywhere from 2-5k so you can develop it. You know who you fucked man. Contact those folks and refund their money.

 

[GoWebnames.com]

Most requests to namepros.com are ajax-based and are not cached by CloudFlare. CloudFlare's caches serve somewhere between 10-20% of requests. However, as much of this content must load along with each page, using CloudFlare increases apparent page load time significantly.

Paul, I am not disputing your hard work that goes into maintaining NamePros and writing / rewriting some parts of XenForo.

I was just mentioning that SCALING is mostly a different aspect than DEVELOPING a LAMP stack based content website.

How do I know of CloudFlare? Because many times, your backend must be crashing and cloudflare tries to fetch the page but it's unable to and display its own page.

Not sure how you have configured the usage of CloudFlare but they do claim that offloading the serviving of static files like css/javascript to them substantially offloads the original server load by a margin of at least 10x.

Recently, I was thinking to use CloudFlare for a personal project and I came to know about all these then.

 

[GoWebnames.com]

It's mine now. I did buy it about a year ago!

I sold it to Victor Perez, you must have bought it from him then?

 

[Paul]

Paul, I am not disputing your hard work that goes into maintaining NamePros and writing / rewriting some parts of XenForo.

I was just mentioning that SCALING is mostly a different aspect than DEVELOPING a LAMP stack based content website.

How do I know of CloudFlare? Because many times, your backend must be crashing and cloudflare tries to fetch the page but it's unable to and display its own page.

Not sure how you have configured the usage of CloudFlare but they do claim that offloading the serviving of static files like css/javascript to them substantially offloads the original server load by a margin of at least 10x.

Recently, I was thinking to use CloudFlare for a personal project and I came to know about all these then.

We don't use a LAMP stack anyway. (We use LEMP + Lua + NoSQL.)

If you ever receive a CloudFlare error page, please take a screenshot and report it to us via the Technical Support forum. It's rare that we have backend issues; typically downtime is CloudFlare's fault. Generally we post status updates for significant issues.

 

[RU]

No comment

 

[S-B]

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This has been posted 3 times now.

Anything new to add?

 

[RU]

I'm sorry, but this thread is trash.

 

[S-B]

I'm sorry, but this thread is trash.

Value added.

 

[D. Wells]

One last thing, Adam Dicker paid Frank back in less than 3 hours after he started making noise.

Why?

Because he knows Frank has the means to make his life a living hell. There are remedies to you folks that lost money.

You need to group up and get a Canadian Lawyer and go from there.